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Because asking them to drink less is probably not going to work

If you were asked to design a preventative solution to people falling onto subway tracks, where would you start? I imagine most folks would focus on the platform's edge, perhaps adding safety rails that aligned with the non-doored portions of incoming trains, or maybe glass walls with secondary doors like

The only chemical you need is soapy water

The brave can kill a single wasp with a flip-flop or a rolled-up copy of Time. But only the foolish go after an entire nest this way. The central "design problem" with eradicating a wasp nest is that the executioner needs distance; thus chemical companies proudly announce their wasp sprays

Don't let this chance to win pass you by...

Remember when we said that the Final Deadline really is the FINAL Deadline for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards? We definitely were NOT kidding about that. The time to enter or finish and submit your entry is NOW. At 9pm EDT tonight, we close the doors to entries and

With their refined aesthetic, these may finally knock the Edison bulb off of its perch

NYC's bars and restaurants currently suffer from an aesthetic issue we call "Edison bulb overload." We get it, it's cool that you can see the filament. But how long can this nostalgia-driven trend last? While LEDs are clearly the future, few people have nailed a non-clinical aesthetic for LED bulbs

Ford has licensed the design, and Revology gives it all-new mechanicals

Years ago on The Tonight Show, Kevin Pollak told car nut Jay Leno that Detroit should build the '57 Chevy again. "They must still have the plans sitting on a shelf somewhere," he said. "Dust them off and start making 'em again." While it's unlikely that General Motors has saved

With its debut collection, New York's Pinkhouse brings together utility and absurdity.

In an era where every design studio aches to create enduring products described as "classic" and "iconic," New York's Pinkhouse diverges from the pack, opting instead for seasonal sprints. The recent newcomer to the product design scene wants absolutely nothing to do with timeless objects; rather, the studio is focused

What will you accomplish in a day and a half?

There is only a little less than a day and a half left to get your submissions in before entries for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards close. If you are putting the finishing touches on your submission, great! But mind the clock. 9pm EDT tomorrow will be here before you

Ironically they start by wrapping it around a core, which is the reverse of how real veneer is made

The folks over at eyeglasses manufacturer Shwood have managed to turn newspaper into veneer. It's more of a manufacturing exercise than a practical way to recycle, but what's interesting is the way they've done it: They started out by essentially reversing the process used to create veneer for plywood, whereby

When your average consumer watches any of Apple's "how it's made" videos, they likely have no idea what they're seeing. But even first-year ID students, when shown a cutting head pivoting precisely around material, understand that this machine is not controlled by a guy named Joe turning a bunch of

Seriously. We're not kidding.

Here we are! Counting down the final four days until the entries close for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards program. If you haven't entered your best work yet, you only have this weekend, Monday and part of Tuesday to do it. We're not kidding. 2013 Transportation Student Notable, "nCycle"

In this YouTube channel, a Master Shipwright shares his knowledge and skillset--and shows you his massive 42" bandsaw

To some, four years of design school sounds like a long time. But in the story of "The Accidental Designer," we learned that Tom Sullivan became a successful designer/builder after spending eight years as a shipbuilder's apprentice. Shipbuilding is something like woodworking or furniture design on a massive scale. The

Remember Green Street Media's no-spraypaint-necessary sidewalk advertising? To refresh your memory, the UK-based firm exploited the filthy nature of sidewalks by placing a stencil over them and blasting them with a pressure washer. With the stencil lifted, the area blasted clean spelled out their message. Green Street MediaSeattle-based artist Peregrine

Because not all files need to live in a file cabinet

Desktop file holders work well for quick and easy access to the files a user needs most often—usually active files for bills, work in progress, etc. They also allow a user to work almost anywhere in the home and office, since they can easily be moved to a new location.

Which do you think is trickier: Dreaming up a form for an entirely new sort of object, or re-imagining an established form factor? Industrial designer Stian Korntved Ruud recently undertook a massive project falling into the latter category. Oslo-based Ruud has become consumed with "making objects with pure functional or

In 1867, Victor Fournel published a work in which he described the flâneur as (translated roughly) the image of the public, of the city, the antipathies and admirations of the crowd, public esprit; basically the figurehead of contemporary urban experience. A flâneur is, by definition, a time waster: someone who

Melting your own HDPE would probably make OSHA say Oh Sh*t

Maker Peter Brown wanted a plastic mallet, but rather than buy one, decided to make one himself—using whatever he had lying around, no plastic-handling equipment in sight. Which means, maniac that Brown is, he used a toaster oven to melt down milk jugs to get that delicious, creamy HDPE into

Hands-free maintenance: This Powermatic is automatic

For those of you that own table saws, have you ever had to take yours apart? I'm not talking about swapping out the blade, I mean actually getting inside the machine and removing parts to perform maintenance. That's what Frank Howarth had to do when trying to diagnose and repair

Star Wars, '80s-anime-style!

G-Force and Robotech were revolutionary in the animation world, and mind-blowing to those of us raised in the '70s and '80s. Well before CG, the "camera" in those shows could do things we'd never seen before: A long shot of battling spaceships would suddenly zoom in on one craft, bringing

We get it. Things happen. Work piles up. Free time gets stolen by unexpected occasions and visitors. If, for whatever reason, you didn't catch the Regular Deadline for the Core77 Design Awards yesterday, don't worry. You still have time to enter and win! You could be 7 days away from

Elmer's is on-board, more companies will follow. How will it affect structural package design?

Consumer Reports once tested various bottles to see how much product is actually left when we consider it "empty." The results were shocking: Up to 13% of toothpaste, 15% of condiments, 16% of detergent and a whopping 25% of hand lotion gets thrown out with the bottle, as consumers find

The tides that once protected Mont Saint-Michel now lure tourists

This is Le Mont Saint-Michel, a monastery in Normandy that's over 1,200 years old. The interior looks like something out of Game of Thrones. Though now connected to the mainland via erosion, this was once a part-time island roughly 600 meters off of the coast; during low tide it

"Remastering The Basics: Getting Back In Touch With Our Food"

Tonight at Hand-Eye Supply's Curiosity Club we're thrilled to feature Michael Madigan, a local heavyweight in the conscientious food community! He will give the talk "Remastering The Basics: Getting Back In Touch With Our Food." Starts 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store or streaming on the Curiosity Club homepage! Recent

It's like "The Writing's on the Wall" but with sofas

Content guidelines be damned, we always feel compelled to post OK Go's music videos because they're just so damned creative. So when we heard they were doing a commercial for Chinese furniture brand Red Star Macalline—which is something like China's Ikea—we didn't know what to expect: Would the company reign

The Dutch industrial designer answers our Core77 Questionnaire.

We recently launched two new products: the Drawer Table for the Dutch brand Arco, and the Aline bar stool for the Swedish company Johanson. In addition, we recently designed one kilometer of balconies for an apartment building in

Wash and cut in the same place

As microapartments and tiny houses continue to trend, we've seen all manner of beds that fold out and furniture that transforms into something else. But one area we've seen that hasn't received much design attention is the kitchen sink—arguably one of the more important elements, at least for the micro-dweller

The best part: It cannot connect to the internet

My local coffeeshops are all filled with people, none of them talking to each other; they're all staring into individual smartphones, tablets or laptop screens. Screens are items for individuals, not groups. However, recent industrial design grad Benjamin Sowa has a radically different idea: For his graduate thesis at

By tweaking the lid in an unexpected way, the designers have increased the functionality

The last time we looked at a suitcase redesign, it proved to be a smash success: The Trunkster was seeking $50,000 in crowdsourced funding and netted nearly $1.4 million. There is an opportunity for designers here. More folks are traveling than ever, and more folks are growing dissatisfied with the

The retired snowboarder's sustainable, snow-covered stone-and-wood cabin is not your average "tiny house"

At his peak, professional snowboarder Mike Basich was clocking $170,000 a year, enough to get himself into a 4,000-square-foot house he ultimately discovered he didn't need. Now retired from competition, Basich spent five years building himself more unusual digs: An off-grid stone and wood cabin less than 250 square feet,

Royal College of Art grad James Shaw crafts extruded-plastic furniture with a historical bent.

Looking around your home or office—or anywhere, really—it's extraordinarily likely that you posses something constructed of a plastic polymer. This item was most likely pumped out by the hundreds of thousands in a factory overseas, along with billions of other mundane objects that have come to completely surround us in

Grand Opening Of The New (Old) PNCA Building

This week a single grand opening ushered in a new life for two Portland, OR institutions. The Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) opened the doors of its new home in the beautifully restored and updated Federal Post Office building, now known as the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for

Did you know that the regular deadline for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards is this Tuesday, at 9pm Eastern? That means you only have this weekend, Monday and part of Tuesday to enter your designs before the prices go up. Time is of the essence, so instead of talking about

If you've got a milling machine and some imagination, ketchup spills are no longer a problem

Jeffrey Nelson runs Maryland-based Macpod LLC, which does software, electronics design and hardware prototyping. It being a small operation--I suspect maybe even a one-man shop--Nelson's got a tilting-column HiTorque Mini Mill in his house. Which means that during a recent snow-in, when Nelson found it "too wet and cold to

The Gokiso Wheel is a no-compromise, fiendishly expensive marvel of modern engineering

If you're having a bike race with a sibling and you lose, you know what to do: Blame the bike. That's what Yutaka Kondo did when older brother Nobuo beat him in an endurance race six years ago. Thing is, the Kondo brothers aren't little kids: They run Kondo Machine